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About Richard Stephens
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I have used word up to advanced, including Macros, very limited VBA. Basic to advanced questions are welcome. Currently using Word 2003 and Word Xp but will try to recollect for earlier editions.

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Teaching and business training for the last 10 years as well as running my own small business.

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Microsoft Word - Info added to Header in a locked form

Expert: Richard Stephens - 7/15/2009

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QUESTION: I have created a form in Word (2003) and have it locked for use. Is there anyway that I can have the text that is typed into one of the fields automatically appear in the header of the locked form automatically? I do not have styles applied to any of the fields.

ANSWER: Nadine

What version of Word are you using

Richard

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QUESTION: Microsoft Office WOrd 2003 (11.5604.5606)

Answer
Nadine

You can do this using a REF field in the Header.

If you set a name in form field, you can then use the REF field in a header to reference the value of the form field. With the insertion point in the header, follow these steps:

1.Press Ctrl+F9 to enter a pair of field braces. The insertion point should be within the field braces.
2.Type REF, a space, then the name of the bookmark you specified in the Options dialog box for the form field.
3.Press F9 to collapse the REF field and replace it with the value of the form field.

Now that you have your ref in their you can update the field any time by going to print preview or it will update automatically when printing.

Hope this helps.

Richard

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